Re: [ilugd] Formatting External USB Hardisk
On 12/24/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I want to format a 80 GB External Harddisk as a backup drive to be accessible by both Linux and Wincedows. Is using FAT32 a good option (considering that having to allow access from wincedows is a necessity for the time being). think fat32 is goos option of reusability of the device across platform i.e. windows/linux Secondly : are there an restrictions on how large the FAT32 partition can be . Thirdly will rsync work to back up from a ext3 drive to a FAT32 drive and how reliable will this be Lastly is this the right command cfdisk /media/usbdisk** cfdisk partitions your disk. you will stilll need to format the partition. use cfdisk this way cfdisk /dev/*usbdiskdevicename* (this you need to obtain from dmesg as soon as you insert the usb usually something like sda,sdbso on) use mkfs.msdos /dev/*usbpartitionnames* (usually sda1,sda5.. so on. ) one restriction about using msdos filesystem is the maximum partition size in 30gb sorts.. ( please correct me if I'm wrong here) - I suggest that since u would be using the USB drive on linux and windows, u create the partitions using linux, while formatting the drive in FAT32 using windows. Reason, Windows just screws up partition table, better to use the linux partitioning tools. Kapil ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Formatting External USB Hardisk
hi ram, On 12/24/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I want to format a 80 GB External Harddisk as a backup drive to be accessible by both Linux and Wincedows. Is using FAT32 a good option (considering that having to allow access from wincedows is a necessity for the time being). think fat32 is goos option of reusability of the device across platform i.e. windows/linux Secondly : are there an restrictions on how large the FAT32 partition can be . Thirdly will rsync work to back up from a ext3 drive to a FAT32 drive and how reliable will this be Lastly is this the right command cfdisk /media/usbdisk** cfdisk partitions your disk. you will stilll need to format the partition. use cfdisk this way cfdisk /dev/*usbdiskdevicename* (this you need to obtain from dmesg as soon as you insert the usb usually something like sda,sdbso on) use mkfs.msdos /dev/*usbpartitionnames* (usually sda1,sda5.. so on. ) one restriction about using msdos filesystem is the maximum partition size in 30gb sorts.. ( please correct me if I'm wrong here) I am using Ubuntu 5.04 will appreciate the advice / suggestions thanks ram ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ hope this helps. vivek ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
